What is maximum writing speed of the Kingston DataTraveler 101 7GB flash drive?

The best way to find out the maximum writing speed of your hard disk is to run writing tests with a single large block of different block sizes:

sqlio -LS -kR -i1 -f1 -t1 -s30 -p0 ...

If we run SQLIO with above options and different block sizes, we should be able to find the maximum writing speed:

             Throughput   Throughput   Latency
Block Size      MBs/sec      IOs/sec        ms
----------   ----------   ----------   -------
       -b8         1.21       155.67         5
      -b16         2.32       149.09         6
      -b32         2.86        91.70        10
      -b64         3.14        50.24        19
     -b128         2.97        23.82        41
     -b256         0.43         1.75       568

As you can see, the maximum writing speed, 3.14 MBs/sec is reached with a block size of "-b64", or 64 KB.

Comparing to the maximum reading speed of 15.36 MBs/sec, the maximum writing speed of 3.14 MBs/sec is about 5 times slower.

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